I figure it's time I fix this and now have a 40 GB drive that I can use anyway so I
wanted to move all but /home into a single 8GB partition
I'm familiar with fdisk and mke2fs (and parted) so the creation of the drive paritions is no problem
I just want to make sure that I can boot from a rescue disk, mount the two drives,
and copy the files over .. or should I be doing something else like a dd (but for
that I think the partions have to be the same size)
Might I suggest that the simplest way is to make a "kickstart" configuration disk which holds the list of installed packages. Now, put the new 40GB disk into the computer (alone!) and install fresh onto this disk, partitioning with fdisk or Disk Druid (I find the Druid nice and easy to use), so that kickstart will put back all your existing packages. Finally, put the second disk in, mount it anywhere (/mnt/olddisk, etc.), and copy your necessary config files back to your (now) primary drive.
The whole thing should take about an hour, and is practically foolproof.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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